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MySQL introduced the Event Scheduler in version 5.1.6. The Event Scheduler is a MySQL-level “cron job”, which will run events inside MySQL. Up until now, this was not a very popular feature, however, it has gotten more popular since the adoption of Amazon RDS – as well as similar MySQL database as a service offerings […]

MySQL meets NoSQL with JSON UDF I recently got back from FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium. While I was there I got to see a great talk by Sveta Smirnova, about her MySQL 5.7 Labs release JSON UDF functions. It is important to note that while the UDF come in a 5.7 release it is absolutely […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 on January 12, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.22, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 on January 9, 2015. Based on MySQL 5.5.41, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.41-37.0 […]

A few years ago Peter Zaitsev, in a post titled “To UUID or not to UUID,” wrote: “There is timestamp based part in UUID which has similar properties to auto_increment and which could be used to have values generated at same point in time physically local in BTREE index.” For this post I’ve rearranged the timestamp part […]

Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on Novmeber 25th 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download, install, and upgrade Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 from Percona’s software repositories. Based on […]

Hi, I recently had the experience of assisting with a migration of a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service). Amazon RDS is a great platform for hosting your MySQL installation and offers the following list of pros and cons: You can scale your CPU, IOPS, and storage space separately by using Amazon […]

In my previous post about geo-spatial search in MySQL I described (along with other things) how to use geo-distance functions. In this post I will describe the geo-spatial distance functions in more details. If you need to calculate an exact distance between 2 points on Earth in MySQL (very common for geo-enabled applications) you have at […]

Hosting a shared MySQL instance for your internal or external clients (“multi-tenant”) was always a challenge. Multi-tenants approach or a “schema-per-customer” approach is pretty common nowadays to host multiple clients on the same MySQL sever. One of issues of this approach, however, is the lack of visibility: it is hard to tell how many resources (queries, disk, […]

MySQL has status variables “questions” and “queries” which are rather close but also a bit different, making it confusing for many people. The manual describing it might not be very easy to understand:

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The number of statements executed by the server.Thisvariable includes statements executed within stored programs,unlike the Questions variable.It does notcount COM_PING orCOM_STATISTICS commands.

Questions

The number of statements executed by the server.Thisincludes only statements sent tothe server by clients andnotstatements executed within stored programs,unlike the Queries variable.Thisvariable does notcount COM_PING,COM_STATISTICS,COM_STMT_PREPARE,COM_STMT_CLOSE,orCOM_STMT_RESET commands.

In a nutshell if you’re not using prepared statements the big difference between those is what “Questions” would count stored procedure calls as […]